Tucson Sector agents and Tucson Air Branch personnel worked together to rescue a stranded migrant from the Baboquivari Peak personnel. [Photo courtesy CBP]
TUCSON, AZ – On Monday afternoon, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents rescued a stranded migrant in the Baboquivari Mountains southwest of Tucson.
On board a U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations Blackhawk helicopter, assigned to the Tucson Air Branch, members of the Tucson Sector Border Patrol Search Trauma and Rescue (BORSTAR) team responded to a 911 call placed by a 24-year-old Guatemalan man. The air crew located him near Baboquivari Peak, where rugged terrain forced them to perform a hoist extraction of the man.